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From: pochmara@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Pochmara)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with sleep and signal/alarm.
Message-ID: <21097@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 13:57:54 GMT
References: <1991May6.153937.28635@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991May07.221122.18325@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1991May07.221122.18325@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1991May6.153937.28635@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> winnard@frith.msu.edu () writes:
>No need for the sleep(), just set up the alarm signal handler, do an
>alarm(), and then read().  Under SysV, the read() will return with
>an error, under BSD you have to longjmp() out of the signal handler.

	You can also use sigpause(2) on BSD machines.

		--John
		  pochmara@cse.ogi.edu